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Below is a listing from the Books Category.

Welcome to my listing of Books from my collection. To view a different section (for example the BBC Transcription discs if there are any for this), select the new section in the links above this message.

To view details of a particular release, simply click on the picture or the text which follows underneath in the display below. By viewing a release page, you will find a lot more information about that particular release which includes basic details of it like the artist and year of release, any track details for the release (if applicable), lists of other similar releases as well as any other pictures I have taken. If there are linked videos, then you will be able to see the them in a form of a youtube embedded object into the webpage!

For BBC releases, all releases are listed whether they are in my collection or not. You can check if I actually have it by selecting the link.

Please note that if you are aware of a BBC release not listed on these pages, then I would be very interested in hearing from you. Would you mind please contacting me using the Contact me page, link above? If you also have an item to sell, then you can use that same page to try to sell the item to me. I should add that the number of entries I don't have from the publicly available catalagues are now quite small. To make this easier for you, I have created a Titles I need page listing them all, see link above!

Picture of books BBC Records Books - BBC - Language-OP (ISBN 0 563 16303 8-SBN 0 563 08315 8)

BBC sub label for foreign language records.

This was the first BBC label available to the public to purchase starting in the early 1960's. To start with, you could only purchase these direct from the BBC. There were shows aired where listeners could follow the programme on the Radio (usually foreign language training shows) and then purchase the record and separate book to accompany it. These could be kept afterwards to continue their home learning.

Later the shows were also recorded for television and the records as well as the books became more widely available in the shops.

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Picture of Russian language and people by artist Terry Culhane from the BBC books - Records and Tapes library
 
Terry Culhane
Russian language and people


BBC ISBN 0 563 16303 8

UK flag 1980 Very Good Plus


Picture of Buongiorno Italia! A combined BBC Radio and Television course for beginners in Italian by artist Unknown from the BBC books - Records and Tapes library
 
Unknown
Buongiorno Italia! A combined BBC Radio and Television course for beginners in Italian


BBC ISBN 0-563-16479-4

UK flag 1982 Near mint


Picture of L' Italia dal vivo by artist Denise De Rome from the BBC books - Records and Tapes library
 
Denise De Rome
L' Italia dal vivo


BBC OP TV ISBN 0-563-16502-2

UK flag 1983 Very Good Plus


Picture of Incontri in Italia by artist Giovanni Carsaniga / Anna-Laura Lepschy from the BBC books - Records and Tapes library
 
Giovanni Carsaniga / Anna-Laura Lepschy
Incontri in Italia


BBC SBN 0 563 08315 8

UK flag 1968 Near mint